Example sentences of "and come [adv prt] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trist and his colleagues were invited to study the problem and to come up with a solution . |
| 2 | What we would expect you to do is to consider various alternative methods of pricing and to come out with a recommendation . |
| 3 | When we sat down for our sandwiches , I made him go away with the grisly thing , but we could still hear him crunching away behind a rock — first a crunch then a cough as he swallowed a feather , then another crunch then more coughs until he realised there was no future in it and came round for a sandwich . |
| 4 | He duelled briefly with the Triplane , lost it , and came round in a wide , searching turn . |
| 5 | In the rucksack in which she seemed to keep half her life she burrowed and came up with a biro and writing-pad . |
| 6 | There were some who drove straight on , but most wound down their windows or allowed the clowns on their coaches , had a friendly word and came up with a contribution . |
| 7 | Hoomey took off as usual , holding his nose , and came up with a shriek that probably carried as far as the bridge party two streets away . |
| 8 | Oxford kept their cool though and came up with a winner 5 minutes from time . |
| 9 | ‘ I studied the problem and came up with a blueprint . |
| 10 | The level of the wine dropped rapidly , and after the meal Carson scrambled around at the bottom of a cupboard and came up with a bottle of port . |
| 11 | As he continued to watch her she delved in her brain and came up with a substitute . |
| 12 | There are dozens of euphemisms for masturbation , but in the course of her research into the subject Karen Shanor interviewed several hundred sexually active American men and came up with a list of the top ten most common masturbatory fantasies among men : |
| 13 | We got a good response and came up with a group of suspects . |
| 14 | I thought for a moment and came up with a suggestion that he should give some sort of honour , an OBE or the like , to the cricketer Basil D'Oliveira , who had been shabbily treated by the South African government . |
| 15 | She delved into the bag and came up with a packet of pastilles which she began to suck , filling the car with a sickly sweet smell . |
| 16 | I was quite interested in erm a study done by a woman , Mary Bolton , erm the actual work that was done and the sexual division of labour within the home , and in fact she looked at some of the previous studies that had been done and came up with a result that actually erm when men did some it was regarded as a lot , of housework , erm and that when you actually went back to count the number of hours and the number of minutes , you discover that men were doing very , very little . |
| 17 | A local estate agent carried out his own survey of the property and came up with a figure only about a fifth of the official valuation . |
| 18 | The initial research provided nothing , but eventually I discovered the scientific name and came up with a photograph of Synbranchus marmoratus , also known as the Marbled Swamp Eel . |
| 19 | Forster searched in a pouch and came up with a glucose sweet . |
| 20 | An added embarrassment was a report ( also leaked ) by the chief inspector for nuclear safety who warned against complacency and came up with an estimate that there was a ‘ several per cent ’ chance of a serious accident in the next twenty years . |
| 21 | [ The recommendations were not well received , and came up against a shortage of appropriately qualified teachers and the determination on the part of the grammar and public schools to defend the Crowther notion of sixth form study in depth . ] |
| 22 | Hope retraced his steps and came up alongside a Mr Crump whose mind had been cleared and relaxed by the stimulating freedom given to his prejudices : his expression was no longer that of the tentative , diffident social and artistic explorer : he was a hard man in his office dealing with a captain whose cargo did not comply with his list of instructions . |
| 23 | As soon as we arrived , the bass player , Paul ‘ Bassman ’ Riley , took one look at us and came over with a proposition . |
| 24 | The sergeant noticed her movement , and came over with a canteen of water , which he offered wordlessly , but with a kind look . |
| 25 | At once regretting that she had let herself become riled , she delved into her bag and came out with a bar of soap . |
| 26 | ’ Franks opened a drawer of his desk and came out with a polythene bag . |
| 27 | Mucking about on the moor like kids will , one of 'em went into the shed and came out with a bundle , all nicely tied up . |
| 28 | The father dashed round his vehicle and came out with a camera . |
| 29 | Sidney reached in his pocket and came out with a tobacco pouch . |
| 30 | He fumbled in his jacket pocket and came out with a tobacco pouch and a pipe and offered the pouch to Wycliffe . |